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This article will trace the attempts by colonial
authorities to implement policies based on these two principles in the prisons of
colonial Natal. The Digest stressed the importance of the deterrent effect of strictly ...

This article has traced South Africa’s discriminatory history of
colonialism and slavery. After the country’s unification in 1910, further
discriminatory policies and laws continued until the end of apartheid in the ...

Architecture is to living history what archaeology is to ancient history. One
would therefore expect to find numerous examples in which legal history is
researched by studying the designs of existing and former court ...

Partnership law is as old as commerce itself. Its history as a profit-sharing
device can be traced from the ancient Near-Eastern civilizations to its present
day position as one of the most important forms of business ...

Contemporary jurisdictions of continental Europe are familiar with the legal
concepts of a contract in favour of a third-party beneficiary who is not present
when the contract is entered into as well as the right of this ...

The aim of this article is to explore the legislative origin of adoption in South
Africa. It is common knowledge that South African law is based on Roman-
Dutch principles and that English law has also influenced our ...